“It may be the worst code I've ever seen… You can see that nobody with any understanding of security looked at this code or wrote it. It's like taking an undergraduate and letting him program your software.”

“People have come to view the magic of Moore’s Law as something normal and unexceptional. That’s a testament to the success of Moore’s Law, actually. In some ways it’s harder to explain because people have now come to take it for granted.”

Actor William Shatner’s unfavourable opinion of Mastodon, a decentralised Twitter clone that has hit the headlines recently. Mastodon the band – after which the site is named – embraced an opportunity to promote their new album

“AI is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it & so claims to do it.”

Mariya Yao, Head of Design at AI & Bot research firm TopBots, on the AI buzz

“No chance this is a DJT led conspiracy. He isn't detail oriented, organized or big picture enough to pull off any time of conspiracy.”

Mark Cuban on whether President Trump was colluding with Russia during last year’s US elections

“I'm not taking that trip until Elon Musk sends his Mother and brings her back alive. Then I'm good for it.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson commenting on whether he’d ride in one of SpaceX’s rockets to Mars